botany

For other meanings, see Botany (disambiguation) Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also called plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, and chemical properties and evolutionary relationships between the different groups. The study of plants and botany began with tribal lore, used to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 kinds or species of living organisms.
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Boťany is a village and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.
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(a. & n.)
The science which treats of the structure of plants, the functions of their parts, their places of growth, their classification, and the terms which are employed in their description and denomination. See Plant.
  

(a. & n.)
A book which treats of the science of botany.
  

Noun
1. the branch of biology that studies plants
(synonym) phytology
(hypernym) biology, biological science
(hyponym) mycology
(derivation) botanize, botanise
(class) acroscopic